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Chicago examiner price five cent vol xii no 38 a ml c *** sunday Chicago march 24 1912 sunday love letters of caruso tell wooing of shop girl tenor's little sugar doll elisa ganelli publishes pas sionate notes on which she based 50,000 suit i anticipate the joys of a lifetime when you are in my arms he writes her heart is locked in you facial cable to tha exsminer rome march 23 many letters and tel egrams which were introduced in the , reach-of-promlse suit of ellsa ganelli ! against enrico caruso which was recently j decided in favor of the tenor have been | made public by the young woman's attor j neys all breathe undying affection an i uoipate the joys of matrimony and in oue t them the writer expresses a desire to le himself np ln the long tresses of the j girl so that he will never be able to break loose a week after first seeing the girl in be milan glove shop caruso obtained an ntroduction to her from the proprietor of tu r on that occasion he used these j words come uow slgnorina put on your hat | nd we will start to-morrow for i have j decided to give a mother to my children | nd you are the chosen one if i had been j 0 fortunate as to make your acquaint j nee fifteen or twenty days ago you would e my wife by this time unfortunately wing to my professional engagements 1 must leave caruso wrote from london and paris re ewiug his protestations of love in one etter he orders elisa to leave the shop u order to break with the people with hom she has had the misfortune to be n contact caruso fairly bombarded the irl with postcards letters and photo graphs amons the latter were portraits f his children she's his utile sugar doll he reproaches her for answering tele graphically and implores her to write at ength he begged for photographs of her nd showered tier with the most endear ng names among these were dear sweet thing little sugar doll my little treasure some of the phrases in ii letters are extremely passionate tell me wrote the tenor are your renes very long indeed do you know why i ask becanse i have a burning onglng to tie myself np hand and foot with them and never regain my freedom one of the most characteristic letters contains the following passage you will see what i will make you do when you are with me how beautiful it wljl be you shall be my little queen my mistress and i your faithful and de voted slave have you ever accepted the advances of some other admirer can anybody speak ill about you are you as tout mother made you you assure me hat yon are and now i can think of only this to make you mine as soon as possible he continues eart locked up in her i pray god that he may grant that i will see the day in which we shall be united i have never entertained the lightest doubt as to your good qualities there is no need for me to ask explana tions or details concerning you of any lody because i am free to act as my heart dictates this heart is entirely oeked up in yours and nothing can ever drag lt from the firm and beloved cradle where it has been lying for the last three months in a letter which the girl's attorneys sqy proves that caruso was taking the neces sary legal steps for marriage he concludes i cannot write any more at present my soul i leave you thinking of you desiring you adoring you â€¢ * * i leave von witli my pen but i treasure you in my heart a million affectionate kisses from thine own enrico in a subsequent letter he writes anticipates joys of a lifetime still another fifteen days separates us a joy equal to that which i shall expe rience in clasping you to my bosom i believe never yet to have had iu my life 1 embrace yon with all my soul nnd send affectionate greetings to your family later un caruso entertained elisa nnd her father at the press club banquet held in his honor where everybody drank the healths of the happy pair after five days delightful enjoyment the gamellis depart 1 ed the parting from caruso was most moving the tenor weeping copiously he embraced his fiaucse and her father re peatedly exclaiming between sobs wm shall soon be united and forever two days lafer caruso telegraphed elisa am leaving full of grief new and grare circumstances have arisen please new york central line defaults bond interest ; peoria & eastern dodges on income issue but big four lessee won't lose , a new vork central subsidiary lhe peoria & eastern railway has decided to default the interest due april 1 on its 4 000,000 noncumuuilive lucerne ouds the road is uudcr lease for a long term i of years to the big four whicli owns one half of its 910,000,000 capital stock it is not recorded however that the big four owns auy of the income bonds under the terms of the lease the big four guaranteed the payment of iuterest on the first consolidated and underlying bonds but dodged responsibility for the ii comes the reason given for the default is that the peoria & eastern's net earnings in 1911 decrease 365,737 laving bareiy enough to pay the interest accrued on prior liens the full 4 per cent interest was paid in 1911 out of the earnings of 1910 also in 1910 and from 1002 to 1908 no distribu tion was made in 1909 as the interest is noneumulative thc bondholders lose for all time whatever payments are defaulted rush troops to border u s war officials hear mission-j aries are fleeing i washington march 23 official nr-j ders were issued by the war department j to-day instructing the fourteenth cavalry uow on its way home from thc i'liilip pines to proceed with haste to fort clark and fort mcintosh o nthe mexican bor der in te t as immediately on its arrival iu san francisco so serious is the situation in mexico that according lo informttion received in washington to-day missionaries ar aban tlonlug their posts and rushing to the am erican side of tiic ltio grande bands of insurrectos raiding los mochis state of guayir.as march 14 robbed amer ican citizens residing at that place of all their arms domestic animals and provi sions bandits also have raided mazntlan carrying away all portable properly sued by sweet marie cy warman has not supported her wife original of song says london ont march 23 cyrus g warman known the world over as the author of the famous song sweet marie is being sued for alimony by his wife marie m warman who lives here mrs warman while a student ln a convent here inspired warman to write the song that made him famous warman and his wife have beeu living apart for some time my husband is in boston said mrs wa man to-day hut he will probably leave any time 1 left him because life with him was unbearable for months he failed to supply the necessities of life warman is employed in the publicity department of the grand trunk railway of canada cold teeth in dog's jaw put there to save the others says queenie's owner smile queenle and show your gold tooth said joseph g crane of dayton to his boston bulldog as he registered at the congress hotel last night queenle made good by showing a large gold tooth in her right upper jaw they arrived dur ing the day from the west and left after the theater for dayton o i had the gold tooth put in between two sound ones he explained to clerk florentine and say she stood it better than many a human would have done it was not done because of a fad tout to save her other teeth says mrs eddy will rise mrs stetson predicts resurrection of christian science founder new york march 3 while those christian scientists who are supposed to know are asserting that n crisis is rising in the church the coterie who look upon mrs augusta e stetson as next in power to the late mrs eddy are finding comfort in her prediction that the grave will open and give up the spirit of her who guided the church to power Â» this resurrection said mrs stetson in an interview to-day win mako the former leader visible to her followers 200 girls in panic at convent blaze 50 dancers routed at same time by fire in another part of city policeman stops rush sisters of mercy march their charges out as building is threatened second time two hundred girls and many women were thrown into a panic last night by a fire discovered on the second floor of the slaters of mercy convent 2834 wa.ash avenue and simultaneously 150 dancers were rushing pell mell to the streets to escape a fire in the dania dance hall cen ter street and west Chicago avenue the convent fire was the secoud in less than two months summoned by a still alarm turned in from the convent engine company no 10 responded every fireman knowing the ! serious results that might accompany a ! bad fire in the building which is five | stories high they were directed to the j second floor where smoke was pouring through cracks iu the floor in the corner of a small room most of the girls who are residents of the convent had already been marshaled on the various floors and marched to the first floor by the sisters of mercy who had run to each floor as soon as the fire was discovered girl faints from fright chopping a hole ln the floor the blaze supposed to have been caused ly an over heated steam pipe was quickly extin guished by chemical apparatus but not until the smoke had filled the floor and thoroughly alarmed the occupants one girl whose name was not ascertained in the excitement was found lying on the floor in a faint from fright firemen e 3 fleming and t j sullivan carried her to the first floor where she soon revived acting captain sweeney in charge of engiue company no 16 said last night that as the building ls comparatively old and houses so many women and girls the firemen always make desperate efforts to quickly extinguish a blaze there or in the neighborhood fearing a catastrophe simultaneous with this fire a blaze creat ed a panic in the dania dance hall center street and west Chicago avenue where 130 members of the erie benevolent asso ciation were holding a dance the dance hall is on the second floor in the middle of one of the numbers smoke begau to pour out of tho furnace gratings and a panicky rush for the stairways re sulted police captain stephen k healy of the west Chicago avenue station ran to the hall accompanied by detectives farley and stegman and dr william h fortin ambulance surgeon forces orchestra to play members of the orchestra were hastily packing their instruments preparatory to fleeing and after fighting his way to the second floor captain healy ordered the leader to begin to play waving his baton the leader called to tlie others and a moment later calmed by the coolness of captain healy the musicians were pealing forth the strains of a lively dance tune the frightened dancers heard the music in amazement and turning heard captain healy shouting that there was no danger and that they should go on dancing firemen meanwhile were busy in the basement with chemical apparatus al most before the dancers realized it the lire was extinguished and all danger past those who had run to the street then returned and in short order the dance was on dr mary walker weak aged woman's rights advocate still treats herself can't recover new york march 23 the condition of dr mary e walker the aged woman's rights advocate who was taken ill last sunday is unchanged to-night it was an nouueed at the hotel gerard where the paticut was taken two days ago from the presbyterian hospital where the patient said the sight of a trained nurse annoyed her that dr walker was weak but that her general condition was not perceptibly worse owing to her extreme age the famous advocate of suffrage beiug past eighty it is feared she cannot recover al though there appears to he no cause for im mediate alarm dr walker is her own physician and insists on prescribing for herself as she has done all her life morton's condition same wife remains a cons ant watcher at his bedside the condition of sterling mortou who is in st luke's hospital suffering from typhoid fever was reported last night lit tle changed mrs morton continues a con stant watcher at his sickbed following the injection of serum which was admin istered to mrs morton last friday physi cians hope that she will continue immune in spite of her exposure to the disease girl sues porter s stover claims a promise to marry won't win says his wife r.eh6-anot photo miss grace e lewis expel nine boys fdr joining a fraternity oak park board of education members act on evidence of principal nine boys were expelled from the oak park high school yesterday by the oak park school board because in defiance of the board's prohibition and disregard of promises they became members of fra ternities those expelled are robert barton son of the rev w e barton of the first congregational chureh fred rice captain of the high school football team lawrence rice member of the football team herbert lewis lee peck edward smith william montgomery landis widson and amos whittle fraternities have been prohibited in the school for two years last fall a new order against them was issued by the school authorities stucents then were given ten days in which to withdraw from organizations formed secretly last spring the students expelled yesterday with the exception of whittle and montgomery then promised principal john calvin hanna that they would have nothing more to do with the secret orders when in a room in the oak park y m c a a few days ago the principal over heard the boys laying plans for the re organization of the i'hl lambda lipsllon fraternity with him was graham stew art secretary of the y m c a summoning the boys he questioned them all were reluctant to admit belonging to the fraternity but were convinced the principal had heard them discussing their plans the boys were called before the board wednesday night they maintained their organization was not a school fra ternity of the forbidden type principal llana presented his evidence when the boanhÃŸet yesterday it voted uniini.'uously for^ftiulsion hotel la salle manicurist asks 25,000 from rich manufacturers heir broken vows causing mcutal anguish and heart strain that cannot be healed with less than j-0.000 as money damages are alleged to have been made by porter s stover of oak park son of the wealthy founder of the stover manufacturing com pany of freeport 111 to miss grace e lewis formerly a manicurist employed at the hotel la salle miss lewis who gives her age as twenty two years and whose home is at 1014 hamilton court lias brought suit against stover through attorney edward j ader alleging breach of promise of marriage and asking 3,000 damages mr ader said last night i understand that mr stover met miss lewis first when she was doing manicure work at the hotel la salle she hns a letter from mr stover which we will produce iu evidence it is addressed dear sweetheart and in it mr stover while he chides miss lewis for spending too much mouey expresses uudyiug love for her in the letter mr stover says he expects soou to have au income of 0,000 a year and that then they will live happily does he make any promise of marriage in that letter was asked not iu so many words but miss lewis will testify that he proposed marriage ard that she accepted him instead he mar ried another stover was cut off by his father in the hitter's will and after his father died he made a contest for a share of the estate he was lu a measure successful and receives a large annual iueoine a year ago miss lewis filed a similar suit at freeport 111 but mr stover left for central america ana service of the papers upon him could not be obtaiued stover's first wife obtained a divorce two years ago he remarried the present mrs stover at her home on elmwood avenue oak.tark said last night i never saw miss lewis and i do not thiuk much of her she tried to get 2 000 from my husband a year ago but did not succeed i don't think she will do auy . better this time 1 will not go luto the merits of the case because i could not keep myself within printable bounds if i i undertook to do so mr stover will tell all about it later he is not home to night at miss lewis home it was said she was ln new york roosevelt in perilous fall with stage from debris he assails Taft tumbles backward heels over head in platform wreck age at portland me pulls gov bass from the mass throng of 3,000 gasps as structure collapses shrieks give way to cheers when he calls Taft sponsor for political and financial boss rule defends recall campaign still in ring the speaker declares | congressman mckinley head of Taft forces gallagher and tawney are cited as examples of duplicity pgrtland.^me march 23 with a re sounding crash the immense stage of the auditorium collapsed here to-night letting colonel roosevelt down with it the for mer president had entered the hall just a moment before a ihroug of 3,000 that jaameil thc auditorium was standing upon | chairs waving hats and handkerchiefs and 'â– cheering the colonel madly roosevelt waved at the crowd and had i just taken his seat in a chair toward the j middle of the stage when the flooring of tbe~ptntform began to sag , look out yelled men in the hall their . waining came just as the weoden horses supporting the stage gave way a ripping sound followed by a terrific crash echoed through the hall the plat form fell to the floor level colonel roose velt who had grasped the sides of his chair when the warning was sounded ami had tried to rise was precipitated back ward he clung desperately to the chair wheu the stage composed itself upon | the floor the colonel found himself in the somewhat embarrassing position of show ing his heels to the audience the former president struggled and quickly extricated himself still in the ring he shouts with a leap toward the front of the stage which had managed to escape the sagging the colonel cried out as his face ' broke into a smile it's all right nothing but tlie floor i gave way our campaign is still in the j ring the audience packed n so tight that there was scarcely room to move had at the collapse of the stage taken to shrieks i and flutters the colonel's reassurance that nothing calamitous had happened quickly had a salutary effect the throng began to cheer roosevelt stood at the front of the stage looking at the wreckage behind ulm and then nod ding to the audience the crowd howled the louder for five minutes the cheering went ou roosevelt standing the while with one hand upon a wooden pedestal that bad been rescued from the crash pulls out governor bass while this remarkable scene weift on policemen busied themselves lu helping roosevelt's adherents off the wrecked plat form some of them wno were there to grace the stage had tumbled upon others in the sudden crash and seemed unable to crawl out roosevelt espied governor bass of new hampshire in the struggling mass and seized his arm the governor came up with a smile upon his face you can't keep a good progressive down cried roosevelt pointing to the governor the crowd cheered again none of the stalwarts who have gone down with the platform were hurt most of them took seats nt the side of the stage when quiet had been restored former supreme court justice enoch foster gin gerly picked his way to the front of the sunken stase and introduced roosevelt we have just lost our platform here began the colonel i mean the physical platform that of our cnuÂ»e has not been hurt the american people will have o stand on our platform of democracy it will never break down accuses Taft of 80-sism the audience cheered lustily roose velt steadied himself on the uncertain platform and plunged into his speech the streets surrounding the auditorium were clustered long before 7 o'clock and when the doors opened there was a rush that quickly filled the hall moro than 1.000 were unable to get ln in tht vast audl-i ence were men who had journeyed from every quarter of tlia state to hear hit colonel his speech was a sharp attack upom president tjift the former i'resldent in decisive phrase cried out accusing the president of being iu sympathy with tb i boss system or government roosevelt i pointedly charged that president Taft ia upholding the principle of rule by the small rcoresentative class stood with such boss leaders as senator galliuger of new hampshire seuator penrose of rennsyl vauia representative sawney of minne sota chairman mckinley of the Taft cam paign commute and william barnes jr of new york â€¢*; roosevelt's appearance ln maine was d ! to his anxiety to get the republican dele gates that maine always regarded as â€¢ | pivotal state in republican politics will i send to the Chicago convention the pri maries to elect four of the delegates comt next friday against the colonel and his allies who ! are led by colonel fred hale a former instructor iu harvard is the hide-bound republican machine a close battle is on for the maiue delegation with the chances slightly favoring roosevelt the colonel was met on the train by judge ben lindsay of denver who a been getting inside information on tht status of the roosevelt boom in the west the judge urged upon rossvelt the neces sity of extending hla western trip of next week he advised the colonel that ht ought to make speeches ln nebraska where the lafollette more is ptinlng headw.l3 sharp blows for Taft in his speech to-night mr roosevelt said in a recent speech the president para phrased lincoln's great statement that this is a government of the people for the people and by the people propos?us as a substitute that we should hereafter act ou the theory that this is a government of the people for the people by a repre sentative part or class of the people it is dangerous wor for auy man tn try to improve on lincoln's doctrines o_i lar sovereignty and popular righu course everybody whether -.. beiu despotism or in democracy agrees i_.;i there must be government of the people iu the next place even the ruling ln a despotism always publicly slate luiu their government is for the people the point of difference between tho be licvers in genuine democracy and geuuii popular rule and those who openly pr secretly disbelieve in such genuine popu r rule and believe in government by nu norities comes in connection with l.in etln^h third proposition that the govern ment should be by the people means government by bosses those who believe iu government or rule by a part of the people by a minor ity of the people by n privileged class or caste over the rest of the people have always laslst^d under every form of mi nority government from aristocracy to plutocracy that ey were really rtpr senting the people bnt that they knew how to represent the people n hei t ka -_- theodore roosevelt as he appeart when delivering a campaign speech continued on 14th page 3d column 2 news â€¢ taudevtli.e 3 sports music 4 society 7 want ads fo*reign real estate a3 tos ftnancial 3 city life b magazine i editorial 9 comic _ j l e j â€¢ â€” a 4 fal ub variable winds l it ib3 linage of temperatures yesterday jjl-m \ *~ t * i m lowest -â€¢* ct^qp~^jpy r ~\^ average sj the great market place over seventy-five thousand fami lies are preparing to move within the next thirty clays that is why practically every good apartment and every good house as well as every office building and business location in this city is being adver tised in this section to-day but this is not all tlie people have learned thai this is an automobile section a farm land section a household section a sec tion of business chances and help wanted and of nearly a hundred other demands there is hardly a thing that you could ask fcr that you will not find within the want ad section tjpick out this section now and answer the ads that is the only way in which buyer and seller can get together for the benefit of both

Chicago examiner price five cent vol xii no 38 a ml c *** sunday Chicago march 24 1912 sunday love letters of caruso tell wooing of shop girl tenor's little sugar doll elisa ganelli publishes pas sionate notes on which she based 50,000 suit i anticipate the joys of a lifetime when you are in my arms he writes her heart is locked in you facial cable to tha exsminer rome march 23 many letters and tel egrams which were introduced in the , reach-of-promlse suit of ellsa ganelli ! against enrico caruso which was recently j decided in favor of the tenor have been | made public by the young woman's attor j neys all breathe undying affection an i uoipate the joys of matrimony and in oue t them the writer expresses a desire to le himself np ln the long tresses of the j girl so that he will never be able to break loose a week after first seeing the girl in be milan glove shop caruso obtained an ntroduction to her from the proprietor of tu r on that occasion he used these j words come uow slgnorina put on your hat | nd we will start to-morrow for i have j decided to give a mother to my children | nd you are the chosen one if i had been j 0 fortunate as to make your acquaint j nee fifteen or twenty days ago you would e my wife by this time unfortunately wing to my professional engagements 1 must leave caruso wrote from london and paris re ewiug his protestations of love in one etter he orders elisa to leave the shop u order to break with the people with hom she has had the misfortune to be n contact caruso fairly bombarded the irl with postcards letters and photo graphs amons the latter were portraits f his children she's his utile sugar doll he reproaches her for answering tele graphically and implores her to write at ength he begged for photographs of her nd showered tier with the most endear ng names among these were dear sweet thing little sugar doll my little treasure some of the phrases in ii letters are extremely passionate tell me wrote the tenor are your renes very long indeed do you know why i ask becanse i have a burning onglng to tie myself np hand and foot with them and never regain my freedom one of the most characteristic letters contains the following passage you will see what i will make you do when you are with me how beautiful it wljl be you shall be my little queen my mistress and i your faithful and de voted slave have you ever accepted the advances of some other admirer can anybody speak ill about you are you as tout mother made you you assure me hat yon are and now i can think of only this to make you mine as soon as possible he continues eart locked up in her i pray god that he may grant that i will see the day in which we shall be united i have never entertained the lightest doubt as to your good qualities there is no need for me to ask explana tions or details concerning you of any lody because i am free to act as my heart dictates this heart is entirely oeked up in yours and nothing can ever drag lt from the firm and beloved cradle where it has been lying for the last three months in a letter which the girl's attorneys sqy proves that caruso was taking the neces sary legal steps for marriage he concludes i cannot write any more at present my soul i leave you thinking of you desiring you adoring you â€¢ * * i leave von witli my pen but i treasure you in my heart a million affectionate kisses from thine own enrico in a subsequent letter he writes anticipates joys of a lifetime still another fifteen days separates us a joy equal to that which i shall expe rience in clasping you to my bosom i believe never yet to have had iu my life 1 embrace yon with all my soul nnd send affectionate greetings to your family later un caruso entertained elisa nnd her father at the press club banquet held in his honor where everybody drank the healths of the happy pair after five days delightful enjoyment the gamellis depart 1 ed the parting from caruso was most moving the tenor weeping copiously he embraced his fiaucse and her father re peatedly exclaiming between sobs wm shall soon be united and forever two days lafer caruso telegraphed elisa am leaving full of grief new and grare circumstances have arisen please new york central line defaults bond interest ; peoria & eastern dodges on income issue but big four lessee won't lose , a new vork central subsidiary lhe peoria & eastern railway has decided to default the interest due april 1 on its 4 000,000 noncumuuilive lucerne ouds the road is uudcr lease for a long term i of years to the big four whicli owns one half of its 910,000,000 capital stock it is not recorded however that the big four owns auy of the income bonds under the terms of the lease the big four guaranteed the payment of iuterest on the first consolidated and underlying bonds but dodged responsibility for the ii comes the reason given for the default is that the peoria & eastern's net earnings in 1911 decrease 365,737 laving bareiy enough to pay the interest accrued on prior liens the full 4 per cent interest was paid in 1911 out of the earnings of 1910 also in 1910 and from 1002 to 1908 no distribu tion was made in 1909 as the interest is noneumulative thc bondholders lose for all time whatever payments are defaulted rush troops to border u s war officials hear mission-j aries are fleeing i washington march 23 official nr-j ders were issued by the war department j to-day instructing the fourteenth cavalry uow on its way home from thc i'liilip pines to proceed with haste to fort clark and fort mcintosh o nthe mexican bor der in te t as immediately on its arrival iu san francisco so serious is the situation in mexico that according lo informttion received in washington to-day missionaries ar aban tlonlug their posts and rushing to the am erican side of tiic ltio grande bands of insurrectos raiding los mochis state of guayir.as march 14 robbed amer ican citizens residing at that place of all their arms domestic animals and provi sions bandits also have raided mazntlan carrying away all portable properly sued by sweet marie cy warman has not supported her wife original of song says london ont march 23 cyrus g warman known the world over as the author of the famous song sweet marie is being sued for alimony by his wife marie m warman who lives here mrs warman while a student ln a convent here inspired warman to write the song that made him famous warman and his wife have beeu living apart for some time my husband is in boston said mrs wa man to-day hut he will probably leave any time 1 left him because life with him was unbearable for months he failed to supply the necessities of life warman is employed in the publicity department of the grand trunk railway of canada cold teeth in dog's jaw put there to save the others says queenie's owner smile queenle and show your gold tooth said joseph g crane of dayton to his boston bulldog as he registered at the congress hotel last night queenle made good by showing a large gold tooth in her right upper jaw they arrived dur ing the day from the west and left after the theater for dayton o i had the gold tooth put in between two sound ones he explained to clerk florentine and say she stood it better than many a human would have done it was not done because of a fad tout to save her other teeth says mrs eddy will rise mrs stetson predicts resurrection of christian science founder new york march 3 while those christian scientists who are supposed to know are asserting that n crisis is rising in the church the coterie who look upon mrs augusta e stetson as next in power to the late mrs eddy are finding comfort in her prediction that the grave will open and give up the spirit of her who guided the church to power Â» this resurrection said mrs stetson in an interview to-day win mako the former leader visible to her followers 200 girls in panic at convent blaze 50 dancers routed at same time by fire in another part of city policeman stops rush sisters of mercy march their charges out as building is threatened second time two hundred girls and many women were thrown into a panic last night by a fire discovered on the second floor of the slaters of mercy convent 2834 wa.ash avenue and simultaneously 150 dancers were rushing pell mell to the streets to escape a fire in the dania dance hall cen ter street and west Chicago avenue the convent fire was the secoud in less than two months summoned by a still alarm turned in from the convent engine company no 10 responded every fireman knowing the ! serious results that might accompany a ! bad fire in the building which is five | stories high they were directed to the j second floor where smoke was pouring through cracks iu the floor in the corner of a small room most of the girls who are residents of the convent had already been marshaled on the various floors and marched to the first floor by the sisters of mercy who had run to each floor as soon as the fire was discovered girl faints from fright chopping a hole ln the floor the blaze supposed to have been caused ly an over heated steam pipe was quickly extin guished by chemical apparatus but not until the smoke had filled the floor and thoroughly alarmed the occupants one girl whose name was not ascertained in the excitement was found lying on the floor in a faint from fright firemen e 3 fleming and t j sullivan carried her to the first floor where she soon revived acting captain sweeney in charge of engiue company no 16 said last night that as the building ls comparatively old and houses so many women and girls the firemen always make desperate efforts to quickly extinguish a blaze there or in the neighborhood fearing a catastrophe simultaneous with this fire a blaze creat ed a panic in the dania dance hall center street and west Chicago avenue where 130 members of the erie benevolent asso ciation were holding a dance the dance hall is on the second floor in the middle of one of the numbers smoke begau to pour out of tho furnace gratings and a panicky rush for the stairways re sulted police captain stephen k healy of the west Chicago avenue station ran to the hall accompanied by detectives farley and stegman and dr william h fortin ambulance surgeon forces orchestra to play members of the orchestra were hastily packing their instruments preparatory to fleeing and after fighting his way to the second floor captain healy ordered the leader to begin to play waving his baton the leader called to tlie others and a moment later calmed by the coolness of captain healy the musicians were pealing forth the strains of a lively dance tune the frightened dancers heard the music in amazement and turning heard captain healy shouting that there was no danger and that they should go on dancing firemen meanwhile were busy in the basement with chemical apparatus al most before the dancers realized it the lire was extinguished and all danger past those who had run to the street then returned and in short order the dance was on dr mary walker weak aged woman's rights advocate still treats herself can't recover new york march 23 the condition of dr mary e walker the aged woman's rights advocate who was taken ill last sunday is unchanged to-night it was an nouueed at the hotel gerard where the paticut was taken two days ago from the presbyterian hospital where the patient said the sight of a trained nurse annoyed her that dr walker was weak but that her general condition was not perceptibly worse owing to her extreme age the famous advocate of suffrage beiug past eighty it is feared she cannot recover al though there appears to he no cause for im mediate alarm dr walker is her own physician and insists on prescribing for herself as she has done all her life morton's condition same wife remains a cons ant watcher at his bedside the condition of sterling mortou who is in st luke's hospital suffering from typhoid fever was reported last night lit tle changed mrs morton continues a con stant watcher at his sickbed following the injection of serum which was admin istered to mrs morton last friday physi cians hope that she will continue immune in spite of her exposure to the disease girl sues porter s stover claims a promise to marry won't win says his wife r.eh6-anot photo miss grace e lewis expel nine boys fdr joining a fraternity oak park board of education members act on evidence of principal nine boys were expelled from the oak park high school yesterday by the oak park school board because in defiance of the board's prohibition and disregard of promises they became members of fra ternities those expelled are robert barton son of the rev w e barton of the first congregational chureh fred rice captain of the high school football team lawrence rice member of the football team herbert lewis lee peck edward smith william montgomery landis widson and amos whittle fraternities have been prohibited in the school for two years last fall a new order against them was issued by the school authorities stucents then were given ten days in which to withdraw from organizations formed secretly last spring the students expelled yesterday with the exception of whittle and montgomery then promised principal john calvin hanna that they would have nothing more to do with the secret orders when in a room in the oak park y m c a a few days ago the principal over heard the boys laying plans for the re organization of the i'hl lambda lipsllon fraternity with him was graham stew art secretary of the y m c a summoning the boys he questioned them all were reluctant to admit belonging to the fraternity but were convinced the principal had heard them discussing their plans the boys were called before the board wednesday night they maintained their organization was not a school fra ternity of the forbidden type principal llana presented his evidence when the boanhÃŸet yesterday it voted uniini.'uously for^ftiulsion hotel la salle manicurist asks 25,000 from rich manufacturers heir broken vows causing mcutal anguish and heart strain that cannot be healed with less than j-0.000 as money damages are alleged to have been made by porter s stover of oak park son of the wealthy founder of the stover manufacturing com pany of freeport 111 to miss grace e lewis formerly a manicurist employed at the hotel la salle miss lewis who gives her age as twenty two years and whose home is at 1014 hamilton court lias brought suit against stover through attorney edward j ader alleging breach of promise of marriage and asking 3,000 damages mr ader said last night i understand that mr stover met miss lewis first when she was doing manicure work at the hotel la salle she hns a letter from mr stover which we will produce iu evidence it is addressed dear sweetheart and in it mr stover while he chides miss lewis for spending too much mouey expresses uudyiug love for her in the letter mr stover says he expects soou to have au income of 0,000 a year and that then they will live happily does he make any promise of marriage in that letter was asked not iu so many words but miss lewis will testify that he proposed marriage ard that she accepted him instead he mar ried another stover was cut off by his father in the hitter's will and after his father died he made a contest for a share of the estate he was lu a measure successful and receives a large annual iueoine a year ago miss lewis filed a similar suit at freeport 111 but mr stover left for central america ana service of the papers upon him could not be obtaiued stover's first wife obtained a divorce two years ago he remarried the present mrs stover at her home on elmwood avenue oak.tark said last night i never saw miss lewis and i do not thiuk much of her she tried to get 2 000 from my husband a year ago but did not succeed i don't think she will do auy . better this time 1 will not go luto the merits of the case because i could not keep myself within printable bounds if i i undertook to do so mr stover will tell all about it later he is not home to night at miss lewis home it was said she was ln new york roosevelt in perilous fall with stage from debris he assails Taft tumbles backward heels over head in platform wreck age at portland me pulls gov bass from the mass throng of 3,000 gasps as structure collapses shrieks give way to cheers when he calls Taft sponsor for political and financial boss rule defends recall campaign still in ring the speaker declares | congressman mckinley head of Taft forces gallagher and tawney are cited as examples of duplicity pgrtland.^me march 23 with a re sounding crash the immense stage of the auditorium collapsed here to-night letting colonel roosevelt down with it the for mer president had entered the hall just a moment before a ihroug of 3,000 that jaameil thc auditorium was standing upon | chairs waving hats and handkerchiefs and 'â– cheering the colonel madly roosevelt waved at the crowd and had i just taken his seat in a chair toward the j middle of the stage when the flooring of tbe~ptntform began to sag , look out yelled men in the hall their . waining came just as the weoden horses supporting the stage gave way a ripping sound followed by a terrific crash echoed through the hall the plat form fell to the floor level colonel roose velt who had grasped the sides of his chair when the warning was sounded ami had tried to rise was precipitated back ward he clung desperately to the chair wheu the stage composed itself upon | the floor the colonel found himself in the somewhat embarrassing position of show ing his heels to the audience the former president struggled and quickly extricated himself still in the ring he shouts with a leap toward the front of the stage which had managed to escape the sagging the colonel cried out as his face ' broke into a smile it's all right nothing but tlie floor i gave way our campaign is still in the j ring the audience packed n so tight that there was scarcely room to move had at the collapse of the stage taken to shrieks i and flutters the colonel's reassurance that nothing calamitous had happened quickly had a salutary effect the throng began to cheer roosevelt stood at the front of the stage looking at the wreckage behind ulm and then nod ding to the audience the crowd howled the louder for five minutes the cheering went ou roosevelt standing the while with one hand upon a wooden pedestal that bad been rescued from the crash pulls out governor bass while this remarkable scene weift on policemen busied themselves lu helping roosevelt's adherents off the wrecked plat form some of them wno were there to grace the stage had tumbled upon others in the sudden crash and seemed unable to crawl out roosevelt espied governor bass of new hampshire in the struggling mass and seized his arm the governor came up with a smile upon his face you can't keep a good progressive down cried roosevelt pointing to the governor the crowd cheered again none of the stalwarts who have gone down with the platform were hurt most of them took seats nt the side of the stage when quiet had been restored former supreme court justice enoch foster gin gerly picked his way to the front of the sunken stase and introduced roosevelt we have just lost our platform here began the colonel i mean the physical platform that of our cnuÂ»e has not been hurt the american people will have o stand on our platform of democracy it will never break down accuses Taft of 80-sism the audience cheered lustily roose velt steadied himself on the uncertain platform and plunged into his speech the streets surrounding the auditorium were clustered long before 7 o'clock and when the doors opened there was a rush that quickly filled the hall moro than 1.000 were unable to get ln in tht vast audl-i ence were men who had journeyed from every quarter of tlia state to hear hit colonel his speech was a sharp attack upom president tjift the former i'resldent in decisive phrase cried out accusing the president of being iu sympathy with tb i boss system or government roosevelt i pointedly charged that president Taft ia upholding the principle of rule by the small rcoresentative class stood with such boss leaders as senator galliuger of new hampshire seuator penrose of rennsyl vauia representative sawney of minne sota chairman mckinley of the Taft cam paign commute and william barnes jr of new york â€¢*; roosevelt's appearance ln maine was d ! to his anxiety to get the republican dele gates that maine always regarded as â€¢ | pivotal state in republican politics will i send to the Chicago convention the pri maries to elect four of the delegates comt next friday against the colonel and his allies who ! are led by colonel fred hale a former instructor iu harvard is the hide-bound republican machine a close battle is on for the maiue delegation with the chances slightly favoring roosevelt the colonel was met on the train by judge ben lindsay of denver who a been getting inside information on tht status of the roosevelt boom in the west the judge urged upon rossvelt the neces sity of extending hla western trip of next week he advised the colonel that ht ought to make speeches ln nebraska where the lafollette more is ptinlng headw.l3 sharp blows for Taft in his speech to-night mr roosevelt said in a recent speech the president para phrased lincoln's great statement that this is a government of the people for the people and by the people propos?us as a substitute that we should hereafter act ou the theory that this is a government of the people for the people by a repre sentative part or class of the people it is dangerous wor for auy man tn try to improve on lincoln's doctrines o_i lar sovereignty and popular righu course everybody whether -.. beiu despotism or in democracy agrees i_.;i there must be government of the people iu the next place even the ruling ln a despotism always publicly slate luiu their government is for the people the point of difference between tho be licvers in genuine democracy and geuuii popular rule and those who openly pr secretly disbelieve in such genuine popu r rule and believe in government by nu norities comes in connection with l.in etln^h third proposition that the govern ment should be by the people means government by bosses those who believe iu government or rule by a part of the people by a minor ity of the people by n privileged class or caste over the rest of the people have always laslst^d under every form of mi nority government from aristocracy to plutocracy that ey were really rtpr senting the people bnt that they knew how to represent the people n hei t ka -_- theodore roosevelt as he appeart when delivering a campaign speech continued on 14th page 3d column 2 news â€¢ taudevtli.e 3 sports music 4 society 7 want ads fo*reign real estate a3 tos ftnancial 3 city life b magazine i editorial 9 comic _ j l e j â€¢ â€” a 4 fal ub variable winds l it ib3 linage of temperatures yesterday jjl-m \ *~ t * i m lowest -â€¢* ct^qp~^jpy r ~\^ average sj the great market place over seventy-five thousand fami lies are preparing to move within the next thirty clays that is why practically every good apartment and every good house as well as every office building and business location in this city is being adver tised in this section to-day but this is not all tlie people have learned thai this is an automobile section a farm land section a household section a sec tion of business chances and help wanted and of nearly a hundred other demands there is hardly a thing that you could ask fcr that you will not find within the want ad section tjpick out this section now and answer the ads that is the only way in which buyer and seller can get together for the benefit of both